Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray died in Mumbai

The Shiv Sena Supremo Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray died on 17 November 2012 at the age of 86.  He died of the cardio-respiratory arrest after suffering a long illness at his residence Matoshree, in Mumbai. 

About Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray

Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray was an Indian Politician, who founded Shiv Sena a Political Party based in Mumbai, Maharashtra in the year 19 June 1966. Before turning up to politics, he was a cartoonist by profession with an English daily newspaper in Mumbai, named the Free Press Journal. His cartoons were also published in the Times of India. He resigned from the Free Press Journal in 1960 and founded his own political weekly, named Marmik. He also founded Samana, the Marathi language newspaper and the Dophar ka Samna a Hindi newspaper.

His house at Bandra, Mumbai is famous with the name Matoshree.

Balasaheb was a leading face in the fight named Samyukta Maharashtra movement (United Maharashtra movement); to make Mumbai a place for Maharastrians that was witnessing the influence of South Indians, Gujaratis and Marwaris.

Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena is a Political Party that strongly supports the thought of Maharashtra for Maharashtrians. Shiv Sena has been a member in different Governments of the State in Maharashtra and was a member in the national cabinet as a coalition partner in the National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004. The party came up as a political force after it won a Mumbai Civic Body Elections in the year 1973. In late 1980s and early 1990s, Shiv Sena adopted the hard-line Hindu Ideology and joined hands with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the coalition won the assembly elections of 1995 and came to power in Maharashtra. In 1999 the coalition failed to win the majority.